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Generative AI Should Not Replace Thinking at My University

Douglas Hofstadter

June 22, 2023

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The Failure of Affirmative Action

Bertrand Cooper

June 19, 2023

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Work In Progress

The Toyota Corolla Theory of College

Sanjay Sarma and Luke Yoquinto

June 15, 2023

Diplomas on a conveyor belt

Universities Shouldn’t Be Ideological Churches

Robert P. George

June 15, 2023

A broken pencil

Never Have I Ever Cleverly Solves TV’s College Problem

June 10, 2023

Paxton Hall-Yoshida (played by Darren Barnet) from Netflix’s ‘Never Have I Ever’

A Big Problem With College Admissions Could Be About to Get Worse

Aya M. Waller-Bey

June 7, 2023

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The Problem With Wealth-Based Affirmative Action

Richard Rothstein

June 1, 2023

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Don’t Avoid Romance

Arthur C. Brooks

June 1, 2023

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The Wonder Reader

Graduation Wisdom That Never Gets Old

May 20, 2023

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America Is in Its Insecure-Attachment Era

April 27, 2023

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Ron DeSantis Chose the Wrong College to Take Over

Conor Friedersdorf

March 30, 2023

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Stop Sharing Viral College-Acceptance Videos

March 29, 2023

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Is This the Singularity for Standardized Tests?

March 21, 2023

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America’s Most Insidious Myth

March 13, 2023

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DEI Is an Ideological Test

February 10, 2023

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What ChatGPT Can’t Teach My Writing Students

Jonathan Malesic

February 9, 2023

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The Atlantic Daily

Florida Has a Right to Destroy its Universities

January 30, 2023

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Are Standardized Tests Racist, or Are They Anti-racist?

January 23, 2023

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Why We Need Civics

January 22, 2023

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The Atlantic Daily

Academic Freedom Is Not a Matter of Opinion

January 12, 2023

An empty lecture hall

Why Some Students Are Skipping College

Jodie Adams Kirshner

January 8, 2023

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What It’s Like to Retire in Your Early 20s

January 2, 2023

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Partying Feels Different Now

December 31, 2022

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Why Yale Law School Left the U.S. News & World Report Rankings

December 31, 2022

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Deion Sanders’s Disappointing Exit

December 8, 2022

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Why Is College the Only Answer?

Xochitl Gonzalez

November 15, 2022

What Should Colleges Care About?

Conor Friedersdorf

November 7, 2022

Arches on a college campus

The End of Affirmative Action Would Be a Disaster

Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone

October 31, 2022

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The College-Admissions Merit Myth

October 30, 2022

Harvard University

The Affirmative Action That Colleges Really Need

Richard D. Kahlenberg

October 26, 2022

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Stop Pretending That Intensive Parenting Doesn’t Work

October 20, 2022

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Against Algebra

October 6, 2022

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University of Hypocrisy

October 2, 2022

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Work In Progress

What Americans Don’t Understand About Teachers and Professors

September 29, 2022

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How Anti-Semitism Shaped the Ivy League as We Know It

September 22, 2022

Yale University’s Dwight Hall

What the Student-Loan Debate Overlooks

Ronald Brownstein

September 9, 2022

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